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Anna and Gilles' bakery is located on this corner on rue Legendre,
in the 17th arrondissement of Paris
Sisters painting the outside
The Nulty girls display their stuff.
Discussing painting strategies inside the bakery. The bakery was closed
for holidays.
Anna and Gilles.
Le chat est dans le salle à manger.
We rented an apartment a couple of doors down from the bakery.
Having drinks on our first night.
Same place, quieter time. Composing this web page.
The front door to the street.
Leila cooking in the kitchen - red peppers, tofu and chanterelles.
Tofu is hard to find, fresh chanterelles are easy.
The kitchen is tiny but efficient - note the front loading washing machine under the
cooktop.
On the wall to the left is a gas fired on-demand water heater.
Lunch time. Clockwise from lower left: Frederick, Leila, Debbie,
Eileen, Anna, Gilles.
Dessert by Gilles.
A great introduction to the Parisian philosophy of life.
As Gilles says: "good cheese, good bread, good wine --- life is good!"
Gilles making crêpes.
Hôtel du gouvernement (city hall).
Lunch at a sidewalk café in the Latin Quarter.
Walking around at night.
Dinner at le Chartier.
Walking around near the bakery.
Ancient houses at the Sorbonne.
Botannical garden at the Sorbonne.
Les Invalides. Notice the sundials painted on the walls in Napoleon's time.
The Louvre.
This is the garden where the impressionist painter Claude Monet created
most of his later paintings. It is in Normandy, a one hour drive from Paris.
Here's one he did of the Nulty girls.
The water lilly garden.
Gilles and Anna at the water lilly garden.
Frederick.
He is 16 and apprenticing as a patissier - a pastry chef.
He's into video games, soccer and ping pong.
The famous artists' quarter is a ten minute walk from the apartment.
Picasso had his first atelier here, as did many other renowned artists.
There is a small local vinyard and this garden.
Lavender
Gilles, Anna, Debbie.
Sacre Coeur cathedral
Hector Guimard was one of the best known Art Nouvau
architects. This is a house at 60 rue de la Fontaine
It was built in 1911.
The entrance of an apartment building at
14 rue de la Fontaine (16th arrondissement)
Art nouveau room at the Museé d'Orsay.
Le Corbusier was a celebrated modernist architect.
Versailles.
Built by rich, decadent kings. A bit over the top.
Marché aux Puces - gigantic flea market with hundreds and
hundreds of antique stores.
Half of the Parisians are walking around with a
baguette in their hand.
This is the most famous bakery in the world.
They don't do baguettes. Only authentic sourdough (lévain)
pain de campagne (country bread), baked in wood fired
brick ovens. It tastes almost as good as Anna's bread and
Leila's bread
This chandelier in the office is made from bread dough.
Stairway leading down to the bakery in the basement.
The wood fired oven. Most of the bread now is baked in a larger
facility that has12 new wood fired ovens in a large circle. The bread is
available in many supermarkets.
Andie MacDowell was filming a movie nearby. This is a scene being
shot.
Two wild Nulty girls.
One of the many bridges crossing the river Seine.
Notre Dame cathedral, viewed from a boat on the Seine.
Tour Eiffel.
Walking down the Champs Elysées.
Arc de Triomphe viewed from the Champs Elysées.
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